SOCIAL AIMS
Defining social aims, working out how to deliver them and then evaluate impact is a skill.
Defining Social Aims
You know the problem you want to tackle, but defining your social aims allows you to focus on exactly the impact you want to deliver. If you get this wrong you can end up spreading yourself too thin and not achieving your aims.
Delivering Social Aims
How will your enterprise deliver it's aims? Will this be part of the service or products you deliver, or will you re-direct profits to achieving your goals? What funding is available to support your aims. Are you really a social enterprise or are you a business with a social conscience? Having clarity on exactly how your business will deliver its social aims is critical.
Evaluating Social Aims
So you are delivering real social benefit, but how do you measure and evaluate your impact. Understanding this is critical to your governance and also attracting additional support and funding. The tools you use have to be appropriate to the scale and impact of your enterprise.
Our process around Social Aims:
We follow a straightforward process:
- Discovery: We take time to understand what you are trying to achieve and how you want to achieve it. We get to your DNA.
- Defining Social Aims: We then work with you or your lead team to refine and define your social aims. We provide analysis where needed to fill in your knowledge gaps.
- Delivering Social Aims: We work with you to look at all parts of your social enterprise to ensure alignment between business and social aims, recommending improvements where needed.
- Plan: We then work with you to produce a meaningful plan of action to make your aims become a reality.
- Evaluate: We help you work out the best, most effective way of monitoring and measuring your impact.
- Our method of working means that any aims and plans are yours with real internal ownership.
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The value we bring
You are busy running your business, and your staff are busy delivering your services and products. We provide resource which is:
- Dedicated to achieving your goals.
- We are not distracted by the day-to-day operation.
- Independent, impartial and constructively challenging.
- We report to you so are not influenced by organisational politics.
- We don't ignore those issues that others consider to be in the 'too difficult' category.
- We minimise disruption whilst we undertake our activities - you still have a business to run.
- We bring significant knowledge and experience of what works elsewhere.
- We have access to leading social value impact measuring tools.
- We have a proven track record of helping social enterprises deliver.